Dear friend,

Welcome to SIAA's October newsletter. There has been a real buzz around social impact this month and with our annual conference fast approaching we have lots of updates for you!

We are delighted to see so many of you renewing your membership and welcome to all our new members! Take a look at the full list here. 

• Kate Ruff, Charity Intelligence
• Dubby Arbel, Midot
• Harry Hoare, Social Finance
• Kristin Majeska, Philanthropic Intelligence
• Roxana Mihalache, Pluriconsult
• Karl Leatham, SROI Network
• Marlon Van Dijk, Social E-valuator

• Our Austrian country impact group host their kick-off event on the 8th November with our national partners the NPO competence centre.  We are actively looking to develop new impact groups - contact us if you would like to be involved.

• Read our guest blog on what data can do for philanthropy by Larry McGill from The Foundation Centre, originally posted in Alliance magazine.

• Check out the updated version of SIAA's new resource centre for case studies, methodologies and practical guidance. Get in touch if you think anything is missing.

• SEIF, a joint impact investment initiative from Oxfam and Symbiotics, makes its first investment with a $1m loan to a Mongolian company.

• Nesta announce the first closing of Nesta Impact Investments, a £25m impact investment fund for social ventures.

• Impact Assets publish IA 50, the first public database of experienced impact investment fund managers.

• Saïd Business School Oxford University launches the Impact Investing Programme.

• NPC launch the groud-breaking Making An Impact report, the first to provide a representative picture of the UK charity sector's response to impact measurement.

• Nesta publish their Standards of Evidence for Impact Investing, introduced here in the Alliance of Useful Evidence blog.

David has been an independent consultant since 2001, drawing on 25 years experience of senior management positions in charities and Board member experience with over a dozen organisations. He is currently a non-executive Director of Big Society Capital in the UK, a member of the Supervisory Board of Triodos Bank NV in the Netherlands, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Effective Philanthropy in USA.

David works in the UK and internationally with a wide range of organisations, helping them diversify the ways they use financial and other resources, and enhancing their standards of governance and management practice. He has also been commissioned to write many reports, including one on Outcomes Funding for the Community Fund. Downloadable reports and details of all his work are on www.davidcarrington.net

David chairs the Programme Board of Inspiring Impact, which aims to make high quality impact measurement the norm for charities and social enterprises in the UK. He will also be helping us to faciliate some exciting discussions at our annual conference!